Forging a Knife From Ball Bearings
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- Forge welding 1/2" ball bearings into a knife. Fun. Unexpected results and a few "ball" yokes, of course.
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Thanks for watching! The final picture looks like there's a line in the finish a half inch in front of bolster. It's from tape used to put the knife in a sharpener and wipes off.
I first saw the tang -plug trick seen here performed by Liam Hoffman and Alec Steele.
It might not have made a nice pattern but the end result was still a good looking knife.
The steel powder would have given you some pattern I think.
I think so
%100 would have
Indeed
@@GreenBeetle Where do you get the square tubing for a cannister. That's what I'm looking for.
@@fredfry5100 most steel suppliers will have it, generally called box section in the uk but dunno about everywhere else
Guys, he said balls.
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Hehe balls
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Peak comedy right there, boys
"these balls" "tee hee" I laughed every time.
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While this was probably the most uninteresting canister forge weld in terms of patterns, it's pretty damn impressive to get such a consistent forge weld from a bunch of balls!
Those welded balls are from a grease test called, oddly enough, the 4-ball weld test. The one on top is pressed down on the bottom 3 while they all spin, and you measure how much pressure it takes to make them weld together.
David M wow that’s actually super interesting!!
I did this exact same build on my channel 6 months ago. You have to etch the blade much longer for 52100 and still its not dramatic. I used 1/4" ball bearings and they came out about an 1.5" on the knife in a kind of weird honeycomb pattern with slightly darker lines between them. I think I did over-forge it a bit because when I etched it out of the canister it looked amazing. Next time I'd do this with a narrower billet or smaller bearings.
Ya know...the fact that there wasn't a pattern is a good thing. That means you did an extremely good job at forge welding. It shows your skill.
Was a tad bit worried about not using steel powder. But, this turned out pretty darn nice. In fact, it's one beautiful knife when outfitted with that gorgeous handle. The idea of drilling the tang and filling with nickel/silver was genius! Thanks a million for all your time and effort to film, edit and post this video. Great channel and fantastic videos. Stay safe out there. 👍👍👍
Ty. I saw tang trick first by Liam Hoffman if I rem. Alec Steele did it too.
IMO, handforged ballbearing steel, makes the most suitable blade, for a fixed blade knife.
"When duty calls. you've got balls." Professor Auguste Balls, Revenge of the Pink Panther
You take chances. This is one aspect of your appeal. But no powder was a ballsy move! Very nice result. Your use of a soft plug in the tang gets a big nod of approval. All in all? Impressive.
Ty 😆🙏
Seemed like common sense that there wouldn't be any pattern and it was pressed in a canister so all gaps upon correct welding temperature would be filled.
know what? ball bearings are nostalgic for me.
In my childhood we use ball bearing balls as Marble leader\shooter in our marble games (they shoot so accurate + strong)
You really know how to work some balls. ehe
Ehe
I have a small tip:
Preheat your press dies whit a hot pease of steal so that your dies don’t cool off. Great vid !
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Man even though the pattern didn't come out he way you planned, this knife came out looking excellent! I want to try out a canister one of these days!
🙏 you’ve been making some great stuff
@@GreenBeetle Thank you very much, sir! Have a great weekend!
Shurap did this awhile ago with smaller ball bearings and his work turned out amazing
The reason this knife ended up without a pattern was that there was no cayenne pepper in the canister
I like how you completely skipped over everything related to the handle.
..it's about making a BLADE
No, it's about making a _knife,_ that is to say, both blade _and_ handle.
You didn’t use any contrasting steel that gets darker after quench or nickel so there’s no reason to think there would be a beautiful Damascus pattern after polishing
You have been posting a lot of videos here lately. Does it have to do with the cooler weather? Love the videos thanks for all of your hard work.
Maybe you could try to do something to the balls before you stick them in the canister, like carburizing them or coating them somehow
Well this video was BALLS to the walls
Ok I see my self out
Boom
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"balls... eh he" got me every time 😂
Man, those crucibles in the background are just a big old tease aren't they! Love the video as always!!!
The more I watch and learn about this knife making jazz.. the more I’m seeing how the science of heat treating is where you separate the men from the boys.. (and girls) great vid
This just goes to show you that you don't need some crazy patterning to have an entertaining and informative video. I would be curious to see what kind of project/tool/knife you would come up with from forging just a couple/few of those balls together--maybe one of those welded bunches?
A knife made from bearings? That's genius. You can throw it in your knife drawer and it will stop your other knives from rubbing up against each other and wearing out.
It looks really nice, even without any pattern. A beautilful knife and the handle is great to. But, we want pattern !!
Absolutely stunning knife regardless of the pattern mate. That handle is brilliant! I wish you showed us how you make those more and the steps you go through. Its always incredible to see how beautifully they turn out.
Yes, I Would like to see how you fashioned the handle.
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I don't think my neighbors at the Condo would appreciate me Hammering all night... LOL
I don't know if you have a reddit account, but if you do then you should post it here too: www.reddit.com/r/your_homemade_weapon/new/
Still a beautiful knife! Good job , Bro!
I'm working on my press.. it's just a 5 ton...got to start somewhere..but I had a thought for a pattern.. square tube.. make a 1095 cross and drop bearings and powdered steel into the four chamberes... Also add 52100 as a border to the cross to separate the two types of 1095.. then make it a twist Damascus.. and split that and San Mai it on a 1095 core.
Love your videos! I learn a lot. The one thing I notice as a theme though is the phrase "I don't want to" / "i'm not going to" which are cop outs. I think you've done brilliant work and most of the time when you say those things I am defeated as well because it seems like you've struck gold and are walking away. 9/10 your are 9/10 of the way there. Don't hurt me anymore. Finish it the way you imagined it.
Ahhhhhh man... Thought you may atleast get a little detail.....but now we all know..Thanks for paying the school fees on that one.. cool video....Thanks.
I finally got round to watching this one, Ive seen the Nakiri video which is really cool, and like how you managed to weld up this one so well but hmmm definitely needed something else in there for contrast...still a cool blade though, especially like that lovely burl.
Love your vids bro been watching for a while . Finally decided to try my own channel be honored if u give it a watch . No where near your quality of editing though lol. Been making blades for six years , u have given me quit a few tips and tricks from watching lol be safe and hammer on !
Forge welding same steel together won't give pattern, as it's all the same steel. But ball bearing steel is very good steel, plain steel powder might have spoiled it. Perhaps CrMo or tool steel powder might work without spoiling the properties of 100Cr6 steel.
This is actually almost the exact knife I want to make for my grandpa and I’ve screwed up the forging twice
You need to agitate the parts if you're cleaning them up with kerosene or diesel. If you just dump the parts in and forget about them it won't do anything. But if you shake the parts and get the fuel moving thr grease will dissolve. I personally like a parts washer or brake parts cleaner
Can you make an otf blade next and put it in a otf. Might be kinda intricate but I feel it would be a cool challenge and would maybe be a first. If the blade is to heavy you might have to put stronger springs in the knife. I'd recommend finding a knife using similar metals to what you use and it should be ready for a similar weighted blade
No doubt that the bearings were from ASTM D2596 testing. Balls should be E-52100 steel.
Good looking knife , I'm impressed for the job you did ! How much you're selling that knife for ?
Maybe adding the powder steel with some nickel powder or shavings between the BBS would make more of a affect. it's a nice knife.
Mr. Beetle, I started using titanium dioxide to coat my cans too and it works well. I just learned that you can keep using the powder over and over if you mix it and use it in the same container. Just add water to the older stuff that’s hard and caked up and it’ll get pliable again.
Have you ever done " Forged in fire"? You should, that would be awesome
I know it's meant well but every time someone asks me that or if I have watched that show it drives me crazy. Steve doesn't seem to mind, but man.... Idk what it is, but it bugs me. Lol
@@dancordray3657 hey Dan have you ever done Forged in Fire or watched it?
@@Wubzy66 😂😂😂😂 I knew that one was coming.
1:05 Kerosene is garbage at degreasing, acetone is a much better degreaser. Also, I don't know what steel they make bearing balls out of, but it's hard as fuck because they're used for high wear low impact operations
For paterns at your final metal piece are nessacary 2 different steels. Using your method (with steel balls encapsulated) can just add inside to the canister metal powder in order to avoid the gaps and the same time you can have this difference at you final piece of steel. Then can have your paterns!!!
What if you added descending sizes of bearings and then a contrasting powder? Might look like Mister Bubble damascus.
excellent work as always, sir! can't wait to see the whole bearings done.
Nice work. Too bad no pattern, but you said it may just be mono steel. I guess powdered steel or maybe some steel bird shot to fill in gaps with a different variety of steel could give more of a pattern.
Good job
Hevey duty over degreaser. It will clean an old motor off! And cheap a big can is like 8 bucks..
I wonder if you put something else in the canister that wouldn't weld to steel if you could get the holes you were expecting. Let it take up space but then you can remove it from the piece later.
Steve I really liked the handle making part of your earlier videos, please consider bringing back
was hoping to see some bawls ehe in the finished design, knife still came out looking pretty cool though :)
Ehe
clever tip on the insert in the tang. Fun video as always. Dese balls lol
Inserting tips, ehe 😆🤛
Eheh
Balls
I've seen other smiths soak blades in coffee after the acid soak to bring out damascus colors, you should try it.
Your laugh is so funny 😂
Its the same metal. If you had filled the container with steel dust you would have gotten a verry pretty pattern. I assume
Didn't much of a pattern in the steel, but still, that's a pretty cool looking knife.
When "failure" results in something thats still awesome. Nice knife bud
anyone else wanna see him do this with like, 3/8 nuts, just for the 'deez nutz' jokes?
turns out you were too good at welding :P
Literally balls of steel... ;o Or, fire... goodness gracious!!
How about you try keys (dont know if there is something like that and if it will even work)
why aren't you folding the metal a few dozen times to get you a strengthened the blade
Gasoline works for degreasing stuff, that's what my dad uses.
Автор этого канала бессовестно ворует идеи и технологии с канала Дмитрия Шевченко "shurap"
Dont skip the handles! Please. They are equally, if not better, than the blade
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I'm impressed you resisted the urge to say "that's what she said". The knife looks cool man they don't all have to be pattern steel. Its a clean looking blade. Well done!
Would powdered 1084 have changed the contrast?
Just a bit thinner and it would have made a nice ball paring knife!
Uhhh-huh, he said "balls", ehuh.✌🤪🏴☠️
The knife turned out great! But I wouldn’t trust It for a $5 lol
Why are you expecting to see anything at all? You didn't add any steel with nickel in it for contrast. :)
I thought there’d by enough oxides on the balls or air in container to form oxides to leave trace line at boubdaries
902 lacquer thinner takes the grease of nicely too
Loved the video you made the worlds best steak knife 👍
Nice work on the knife bro 🤩well done bro 😎👏👏👍👍
Can you make a knife out of a tank track?
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@@GreenBeetle I would love to see you do it
If you want to repeat the experiment, heat the balls up to around 700 °C / 1300 °F in een open to air furnace for a while. This will decarburize the surface, resulting in some possible pattern to appear, because the decarburized areas will etch differently if sufficient carbon diffused out and burned off.
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First! Ok now time to watch the video, and always blame Kevin!
you handled those balls like you've been doing it almost your whole life!
Your gigglin when you say "Balls". LOL
Best thing for getting grease off of metal parts is Varsol.
Looks like they are doing some "4-ball wear testing" at the grease plant. This is typical load carrying capability test for grease under high or extreme pressures. If the speed and pressures are high enough, the friction can weld the balls together. Cool stuff!
Woah cool!
What's wrong with just a regular knife
Awesome. Nice job 👍 keep posting. Me like it
I could make innuendos about being one with balls, loving the balls and so on......but I’m classy, so I won’t.
In all seriousness, bearing steels are usually high quality and very consistent steels, so any blade you make out of them (from what little I’ve read) will reflect that, so they’ll be good blades, doubt you’ll get much of a pattern on them though.
Great vid and really cool knife though.
You made a knife out of Duke Nukem's Balls.
That's one hell of a solid bank but the etch you need two different metals. Get forge welding sir. What the set up on the forge?
Oxidation between the pieces often shows as a thin web but the canister didn’t allow it.
thats a realy cool ball *tee hee* knife you made there!
seams like you've always got extra bit from projects. have you ever made a knife from combining leftovers?
Need to
How well does red hot steel cut with angle grinder? Is it gummy or like hot knife trough butter?
Really nice knife tough, not every knife needs a pattern.
Not much different
the patern problem come from the canister, without air the ball havent build scale or decarb so they dont done patern.
But if u try with the bearing cage, flaten, build in a billet, u will see patern form from decarb betwen each plate ;)
Yeah, that’s what I figured. Bummer!
Lol, after all of that, nothing showed up?
Could you forge the bearings into a bar of steel? Like an Oh Henry, but only steel?
The finished knife looks amazing!